WATCHDOG's Julia Bradbury has had some nice gigs - flying with the Red Arrows, fell walking in the Lake District. But this is surely the pinnacle of her career in every sense.

With zero climbing experience, she's sent to scale three rock faces so intimidating they make your palms sweat just looking at them.

Egging her on is fearless climber Tim Emmett, who has Velcro for fingertips and is every inch the muscled action man, until, that is, he opens his mouth and sounds like an even wetter version of David Beckham.

When they started filming the show - the first in the BBC's new Ultimate Outdoors series designed to inspire viewers to "commune with nature" - there was no guarantee Julia would be able to complete any of the climbs.

The potential for her to get stuck, unable to go up or down and demand to be helicoptered off, is ever present.

But, in a thrilling programme that makes the toughest Faking It challenge look like a nice lie down, Julia does brilliantly - even through her tears.

Heroically trying not to swear as she clings to a cranny on Scotland's Old Man of Stoer - a terrifying 60-metre high sea stack jutting out of the waves - her achievement is simply awesome.